Yay for Tina Fey! SNL Posts Highest Ratings Since 2006
Over the weekend, the first new episode of Saturday Night Live to air since the end of the writers’ strike posted the show’s highest ratings since Feb. 4, 2006, easily topping seven million viewers,...
View ArticleOlivia Thirlby: Juno’s Bestie on the Brink
“My brain hasn’t really processed it. I actually can’t believe it,” said Olivia Thirlby, via phone, early in the morning of Oscar Sunday. The 21-year-old actress, in Los Angeles, was eating breakfast...
View ArticleAdam Green Scrapes Off the Mold
So there’s no way Adam Green could have known that, when asked by director Jason Reitman what music her character ought to listen to, Juno star Ellen Page would reply “The Moldy Peaches” faster than...
View ArticleManhattan Weekend Box Office: Smart People? Demographic Doppelgangers Devour...
There was a clear division over the weekend between the haves and the have nots—as in those movies that had an audience and those that did not. Each of the top four movies in Manhattan averaged near or...
View ArticleSlayed by Quaid! Middle-Aged Glamour Boy Scores as Scruffy Prof
SMART PEOPLE Running Time 95 minutes Written by Mark Jude Poirier Directed by Noam Murro Starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church Accidents happen. So I have decided the...
View ArticlePieces of Ellen
THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS Running time 77 minutes Written by Maureen Medved Directed by Bruce McDonald Starring Ellen Page, Ari Cohen, Zie Souwand Bruce McDonald’s The Tracey Fragments, from Maureen...
View ArticleEllen Page to Take on Jane Eyre
Watch out Keira Knightley! Ellen Page is trying to take your career as period-piece queen! The Juno star is making big moves, from quick talkin’, uber-hip hipster types to one of literature’s most...
View ArticleDouble Vision
THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS Running Time 78 minutes Written by Maureen Medved Directed by Bryce McDonald Starring Ellen Page On the heels of Juno and Smart People, Ellen Page is back, temporarily out of luck,...
View ArticleBlackbird Soars to Screen
Calling fans of Hard Candy (the pedophile movie starring Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson, not the makeup): Variety reports today that David Harrower will be adapting his harrowing play Blackbird, which...
View ArticleWhip It Good: Welcome Back Alia Shawkat!
With the Arrested Development movie firmly ensconced as the Sasquatch of film projects, forever-taunting fans with glimpses and false positives—get excited: apparently the script is being worked on...
View ArticleOpening This Weekend: Zombies! Roller Derbies! Ricky Gervais! Plus, The Coen...
How do we know fall is officially here? Because not only are the temperatures dropping—we needed to pull out shirts with long sleeves this week, people!—but the movies are finally getting good. Four...
View ArticleCan Someone Please Explain Inception to Me?
At the movies, incomprehensible gibberish has become a way of life, but it usually takes time before it’s clear that a movie really stinks. Inception, Christopher Nolan’s latest assault on rational...
View ArticleIn a Jam: Eco-Terrorism Thriller The East Ties Itself in Moralistic Knots
Ellen Page, center, stars in The East. A good cast and the speed-dial theme of eco-terrorism should really add up to a film of more substantial mind over matter than the dull, talky and ultimately...
View Article‘Freeheld’: The Triumphant Tale of a Gay Cop Who Dared to Live Outside the...
Another electrifying performance by the consummate and always surprising Julianne Moore illuminates 'Freeheld.'
View Article‘Into the Forest’: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Make a Home in the Dark
Let us hope that when the lights go out for good for us, we are all as calm as the family in Into the Forest, one of the more intimate and thoughtful takes on the post-apocalypse in cinematic memory....
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